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Big Digital Tech Moves Into Synthetic Biology: The Generative AI Rush/Black Box Biotech – Pt 1/2
Jim Thomas says profit driven generative biology, Big Tech integration of artificial intelligence with synthetic biology, raises serious challenges for global oversight of biotechnology and governments need to separate hype from reality at the upcoming 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP16). Produced by GPEnewsdocs.
Fossil Fuel Industry Phase-Out: Three Critical Worker Guarantees for a Just Transition
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Towards a Green Economy: Tax, Trade, Cap, Deny? – Robert Pollin on RAI (7/8)
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Clinton, Blair, and Obama Destroyed the Idealism of Politics – Gabriel Byrne on RAI Pt 3/4
On Reality Asserts Itself, actor Gabriel Byrne says his journey as an Irish immigrant helped to radicalize him, as did his disillusionment with leaders who promised transformation and delivered conservatism with a “different tie” – with host Paul Jay. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced December 26, 2017.
Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive Says Economist Jayati Ghosh
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn the food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies away from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems and a managed transition to healthy sustainable patterns of production, explains Jayati Ghosh. Lynn Fries interviews Jayati Ghosh on GPEnewsdocs.
Holy Sh*t. I thought I was the only one who called CCS and running everything on hydrogen fuel cell technology BS. Funny videos that get to the point. 90% of the people on this planet don’t want to take a bus, train, walk, or cycle anywhere. We are still making Ford F350’s for people commuting to work. China is building 30 new coal plants. People would rather believe made up shit from a man with fake hair than a PHD who spends there life dedicated to science with peer review. We’re doomed.